Yet the fact that they chose to send a missile-capable drone suggests surveillance isn’t the primary goal of this deployment. The Trump Administration has already shown an interest in escalating the use of drones to attack targets in places that are not directly part of current US military operations.

While the US throwing more military forces at the Korean Peninsula is nothing new, deploying forces that are seen as being usable in something short of a full-scale military operation seems particularly risky, as it risks the chance that the overflights could blunder the US into a precipitous escalation with North Korea.

This is doubly true because drones being used for their stated purpose, surveillance, could be misinterpreted by North Korean Air Defense as an imminent US attack with Hellfire Missiles, and could produce a retaliatory response from North Korea’s substantial missile program.

It’s not too hard to imagine a number of ways in which this deployment could destabilize the situation on the Korean Peninsula, and with the Trump Administration openly eschewing any negotiations with North Korea as proposed by China recently, it only adds to the sense the US is seeking a “military solution.”

13 thoughts on “US Missile Drones Deployed to North Korea Border”

It is hard to believe that even Trump can be worse than his predecessors, especially as there were talks scheduled with N Korea only a few weeks ago, then cancelled by the USA. Why? is there an inbuilt desire for American self-destruction, taking the whole world with us?

Hate for the black guy has skewed things all out of shape rose. And yes, Trump is much worse than his predecessors, judging from his predecessors’ amount of time in offece for a fair comparason.

I think it’s also safe to say that Hillary wouldn’t have been nearly so bad, to date at least. But in any case, the lowlife losers who voted for Trump and still support him, are just a bunch of haters anyway so they won’t even admit how bad their mistake really was. And in a big % of them, racist hate that drove them to go for a faking bas-ard like Trump.